Hopkins disappointed by Haye’s performance against Wladimir
July 26th, 2011
By Eric Thomas: 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32 KO’s) had picked WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) to pull off an upset of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) in their fight on July 2nd. Indeed, Hopkins had this to the BBC: “Haye will knockout both [Klitschko] brothers. I’m not impressed with those guys…They’re very ordinary. They ain’t special; they’re just lucky. Wladimir will be real easy for Haye.”
After watching Haye get totally out classed by Wladimir, Hopkins had this to say to the dailymail.co.uk: “You can’t trash talk the way he did for two or three years and then not deliver. I don’t like to question any fighter’s heart. But to see him go in there and then keep flopping. I would spot him 20 lbs… Haye was given the stage, the opportunity, to fight his heart out. If you do that, even if you don’t win, you can come back. But as soon as he started flopping down on his knees I knew it was over.”
It was basically over by the 2nd round, as Haye was out of his league in this fight and didn’t have the courage to try and make a go of it by attacking Wladimir all out. Haye’s only chance of beating Wladimir was to get in close and flurry like he had done in wins over Enzo Maccarinelli and Audley Harrison. However, Haye didn’t want any part of letting his hands go and instead threw only pot shots for the 12 rounds.
Hopkins has a fight coming up in October against Chad Dawson (30-1, 17 KO’s) at the Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey. This is going to be an interesting fight for a couple of reason. Dawson is trained by Emanuel Steward, who also trains Wladimir. Steward has made a lot of changes to Dawson’s fighting style and has him using his jab more and boxing. Hopkins has problems against fighters that box and have fast hands. This could be a very hard fight for Hopkins to win because Dawson is so good defensively and isn’t someone that will just stand there the way that Roy Jones Jr did in his recent loss to Hopkins. Dawson also is capable of throwing more punches than Jean Pascal, a fighter that tried to beat Hopkins by pot shotting him in two consecutive fights.
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IN the fight game , when u talk i lot u get paid alot !!! bhop win lose or draw is the best fighter in phila history , hands down not no other joes .
pinoy…dont be an idiot. hopkins is in with the same promoters as haye and mosley. and hopkins was a strong haye supporter…he saw haye as not just losing, but acting cowardly. and he critisized mosley for it. everything is about nationality only in small countries with inferiority complexes. hopkins, by the way, is famous over here for his racism…like eric may be in england.
I agree with the Real america Oak. Hopkins will always pick the black fighter. He can never give the Klitchko brothers any credit. If they were black Hopkins would love them.
i just wac vitali’s fights and his kickboxing fight,i cant imagine if david haye was in that ring…perhaps he broke not only toe but also his backbone,his leg,his knee and his neck..ha…ha…ha….i still believe vitali r 1 of the best fighter lifetime.and i believe he’s the last “name” for any fighter to fight…
hopkings to win on points
Dawson Hopkins? This is Hopkins making another pay day for himself. That suckers got his first dollar that he made….
Bernard is a great fomer champ.He is now barely capable of retaining for any top 10 contender.He surely will lose to Dawson.,And Haye can return such expectations,As Bernard thought of going for the heavywieght belt at one time.He and Haye may have fought.I am sure Bernard would avoid such an impossible challenge.Haye fought to his best ,and showed it was not a mismatch as many thought.BH should get on to a better trade for his sake.Dawson will, mark my words demolish the great over the hill .
Dawson-Hopkins Wow! Styles make fights. Dawson will do well in the beginning but just enough to win rounds as always. Then, as always, Bernard is going to adjust and Dawson will display confusion and little ownership as to how he should react to the unpredictable and illusive fight smart Hopkins. B-Hop UD 115-113. It’s two guys against one another come fight night, especially when Hopkins is involved.
Corners won’t have any input in that one as Hopkins will show and Dawson be shown. There is nothing to learn here for Dawson though, because the fighting sense is something you either have or have not. Dawson’s work rate is no where near Calzaghe’s his courage is also subpar for a top contender, nice skills but no will nor agression instinct.
P.S. When B-Hop says that black is the only race he is right. Caucasians and Mongolians come from the Negro strand. Fact. There’s nothing wrong with being proud of your origins. The Calzaghe incident is part of who Bernard is and that’s all there is to it, that and the hype job and prefight war he is so good at. Just watch. I’m Caucasian btw.
He just likes Haye because he’s a “black slick fighter” that a white boy totally spanked and made him look like what he is – a mouthy shine.
no question that hopkins feels disgraced when he or a black fighter loses to a white fighter. Times are changing with the resurgence of eastern european fighters and the decline of american fighter who are raised in poverty areas. we are seeing a lot of success with these euros. They are skilled and tough.
Up until his last 2 fights he has been very boring to watch but very effective. Though I have to hand it to him at age 45 to do what he is doing is insane.
Hopkins cheated against that same guy. Joe C. judah was cheating against Khan and Haye was cheating against Kllitschko. Afro Americans cant stand to loose or admitt a different race can be better. That I have only seen In American black folks not black folks in other countrys though.
diva ga y – LOSER & COWARDLY JEALOUS BIATCH. This is her place in the boxing history.
Hopkins said Haye would beat both k brothers ? I wont let a white boy beat me say’s everything about hopkins. Rascist
let’s all forget about diva ga y and her idiotic english fangirls. They are done. End of discussion.
I found out that Hopkins can actually fight.(Pascal Fight), and now it seems he is commenting like an intelligent guy, instead of a hothead. Steward coaching Dawson is good news as well. Maybe things are looking up.
Hilarious, Hopkins loves crawling around on his knees!. Both are horrible to watch!.
At least Hopkins isn’t fighting shot fighters. 46 years old and not demanding his opponents do something to put themselves at a disadvantage.
i respect hopkins as a fighter 45 yrs old and a world champion that says something.but when he fought calzaghe wasnt it hopkins that spent most of the later rounds slipping to the canvas a number of times.
IIRC, Pascal has beaten Dawson and I can see no reason why Hopkins cannot do the same.
I think it will be a dull, tactical fight to watch because of their over cautious styles.
that a strange situation…style make fight a guess, but i think Dawson beat Hopkins, Hopkins beat Pascal, and Pascal beat Dawson, for some reason those 3 fighters can all beat one of the other but not the other
Actually hopkins your very ordinary and horrible to watch too
Hopkins talks too much when the day is long. All those head shots are really showing these days.
Hopkins has been ducking Dawson on the low for quite some time now.
Dawson via UD